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A market in search of perfect earnings

by Interactive Brokers Traders Insight|Published August 4, 2020

Steve Sosnick, Interactive Brokers’ chief strategist, discusses the market dynamics amid a closely watched earnings season.

Investors found some solace in the solid earnings performance of the flagship tech giants such as Amazon (AMZN), Facebook (FB) and Google parent Alphabet (GOOGL). 

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Interactive Brokers Traders’ Insight (IBTI) is a venue for market-related articles and commentary covering an array of asset classes and topics. All articles published on Traders’ Insight are simultaneously published directly to our trading platform (TWS).
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